You know you're liberal if even a liberal media watchdog group calls you liberal -- that is, unless you're MSNBC's Keith Olbermann. While Olbermann denies displaying a liberal bias on his show, once describing himself politically as "correct" and "neutral," media analyst Paul Waldman of the far left Media Matters for America, a frequent source of material for Olbermann, sees it differently. On Tuesday's Scarborough Country on MSNBC, during a discussion of whether there is a "vast left-wing conspiracy" against Bill O'Reilly and Fox News, Waldman proclaimed that Olbermann's show is the "only liberal show" on cable news. Below is a complete transcript of Waldman's comment from the December 5 Scarborough Country:
Paul Waldman, Media Matters for America: "You know, before, Joe, you said something about how there are liberal shows on cable news, too. Well, I can only think of one, and that's Keith Olbermann's. Every single other host that I know of is either a neutral person, like Wolf Blitzer, or is a conservative. There are probably five or six or maybe even more conservatives for every liberal who has their own show on cable news."
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December 6, 2006 - 02:00 ET by bigtimerBwaaaahahaaaahahahaaaaahahahhaaahahaaha!!
Priceless!
"Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again." - Grover Cleveland
"a neutral person, lik
December 6, 2006 - 02:06 ET by sarcasmo"a neutral person, like Wolf Blitzer..."
!!?? Dude, "MediaMatters" is small time. You're clearly Saturday Night Live or Daily Show material with jokes like that!!
JMR
OWNED!!! Hear that Olbermann?
December 6, 2006 - 03:16 ET by tracheostomyOWNED!!! Hear that Olbermann??? Do ya? What are you gonna do now, put your own source on your "World's Worst" or what? Huh?
Punk!
-PJ
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That assessment despite the f
December 6, 2006 - 04:00 ET by Andrew H.That assessment despite the fact all liberal groups are hardly or never intellectually honest. Interesting--but then Olberman fails to make my viewing list.
Never relent.
Hmmm ...
December 6, 2006 - 12:06 ET by Dave PierreFound at Media Matters' Wikipedia entry: "Media Matters Watch": A rebuttal to Media Matters. Some of their facts and claims are challenged.
Media Matters Watch
December 7, 2006 - 16:37 ET by SanityClauseUnfortunately, Media Matters Watch is not posting new corrections anymore.
Apparently it was a one-man operation and with the incredible amount of attacks by MMFA on Bill O'Reilly, he just could not continue to devote the time needed to do a good job.
The archives are good, though, and include tearing apart the MMFA slams against "Culture Warrior".
Olby tagged as liberal
December 6, 2006 - 12:58 ET by exLibThis is at least the 3rd different guest on Scar Country that was a liberl and tagged Olby as "the only liberal voice with his own TV show".
Free or New Republic, Salon and now MMFA.
The last time there was a link to MMFA from this site about O'Reilly I went over and checked their site out again. What a waste of time, energy and space that site is. It's like school girls gossip, totally vapid and pointless and mostly just gotchas and innuendos.
At least fair.org has some substance to it despite the fact that it calls itself "non-partisan" or something to that effect and are nothing more than a far-far-left version of MMFA but as I said with a little more substance.
Waldman
December 6, 2006 - 14:20 ET by Jerry MackBy Waldmans standards he must consider Chris M. a right wing wacko. I would like to see the grade that he gives to Rush!
olbermann
December 6, 2006 - 14:40 ET by iveseenitallMy dictionary states,"liberal implies tolerance of others' views, as well as openmindedness .." Maybe Olbermann's right; he's not a liberal. That's the hypocrisy of the modern "liberal".
NEVER, NEVER trust a liberal